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SAARC Diaries

August 13, 2020 Prachi Vyas 0

Venkatesh Iyer Bhutan: India-Bhutan border trade via Bengal suspended thanks to lock-down in the Himalayan kingdom. Bhutan has officially announced the first-ever nationwide lockdown due to an increase in covid related deaths. Bhutan shares its borders with the Indian states of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal and Sikkim. With the lockdown now in force trade […]

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SAARC Diaries: Pakistan requests the U.S. to mediate

August 13, 2020 Prachi Vyas 0

Venkatesh Iyer Pakistan on Tuesday asked the United States to play a task in de-escalating tensions with India. Foreign Secretary to Pakistan Sohail Mahmood requested the U.S. Under political affairs, Ambassador David Hale, to help de-escalate the tensions between the India and Pakistan during a virtual Tele-conversation. Mr Mahmood during the talks quoted. “It was […]

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Rat-racing super-powers: Russia plans to beat F-35s, experiments on Su-57 & Su-35 Jets

August 12, 2020 Prachi Vyas 0

Vinayak Barot & Aditya Hore Ahmedabad: Russia, to remain in the league of the super power nation had recently conducted an experiment to shatter American deadliest fighter plane F-35, says a report of Russian news agency. The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is member of an American family of single-seat, single-engine, all-weather stealth multirole combat […]

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Decacorn BYJU’s buys code training app WhiteHat Jr. for $ 300 million

August 10, 2020 Prachi Vyas 0

Venkatesh Iyer Banglore: BYJUs has acquired less than 2, year young company WhiteHat Jr. a Mumbai-based education technology start-up in an all-cash undisclosed deal estimated to be around $300 million. This acquisition signals BYJUs entry into the fast-growing computer code training segment targeted at the high school and college students. The deal has proved to […]

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SAARC Nations: Sri Lanka’s election explained

August 10, 2020 Prachi Vyas 0

Venkatesh Iyer Banglore: Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) led alliance attains a landslide win within the 9th parliamentary elections 2020 with 151 seats securing a 2/3 majority. The elections were initially planned for April but were, deferred twice thanks to the continued COVID-19 pandemic. PM Mahinda Rajapaksa will be sworn-in on Sunday, his cabinet ministers […]

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Book review of “I’ve Never Been Unhappier”- Shaheen Bhatt

August 10, 2020 Prachi Vyas 0

Garima Vyas ‘“And why do you want to be happy?” he asked. ‘It seemed like an absurd question. ‘“What do you mean why?” I shot back. Everyone wants to be happy. … Who wants to be sad all the time? It’s not normal, and it’s exhausting.” ’ This excerpt of a conversation between father and […]

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PM Modi at Ram Janmabhoomi ceremony, Ram is everywhere, He belongs to all

August 5, 2020 Prachi Vyas 0

Ayodhya: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on reaching Ram Janmabhoomi ahead of the grand ground-breaking ceremony in Ayodhya had offered prayers at Hanuman Garhi. Modi is among the 175 people who were present at the ceremony. He shared the dais with just four other people; RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, trust chief Nritya Gopaldas Maharaj, Uttar Pradesh […]

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Political Absurdity, claims India as Pakistan approves new geographical map

August 5, 2020 Prachi Vyas 0

Venkatesh Iyer Prime Minister Imran Khan during a nationally televised address on Tuesday unveiled a new political map of Pakistan as it included the entire Jammu and Kashmir including Gilgit-Baltistan as its own. The small print of the decisions made within the Cabinet meeting. Incidentally, the announcement comes a day before the first anniversary of India’s controversial decision to revoke the area’s semi-autonomy. The map […]

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From around the BORDERS

August 4, 2020 Prachi Vyas 0

Venkatesh Iyer Nepal Along the Indo-Nepal border in West Champaran district of Bihar, Nepal is getting to construct a helipad. According to a report within theHindustan Times, the proposed helipad for which tenders were already floated is being planned at Narsahi village, near the Thari border outpost (BOP) of Sashatra Seema Bal (SSB) near Valmiki Tiger Reserve (VTR) in West […]